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<strong>28.</strong> PANTOKRATOR allowance there will be six hyperpyra nomismata, twenty-four maritime modioi of grain, eighteen similar measures of wine, and for the reader there will be half of this. [p. 111] [60. Transfer of the Sick to the Hospital] If any of the old men in this old age home are afflicted with any other sickness besides the one for which they were thought fit to enter the old age home, the priest of the old age home will notify the infirmarian of the hospital and information will be supplied to the medical team and they will command one of the doctors or assistants to take care of the sick man, as has been stated, so that he finds relief from this disease. But if the illness is judged to be too serious he will be put to bed in the hospital and will be entitled to the necessary care and medical attention, and when he has regained his strength once more, he will return to the old age home. Each of the old men in the old age home will be washed twice a month in the bath of the hospital. [61. Appointment of an Infirmarian] From time to time an infirmarian will be appointed from the monks in the monastery, the most reverent of them all, who will devote all his concern and zeal to ministering well to the old men in his care. Also the superior himself will pay careful attention to these brothers. On Holy Thursday he will take care to wash these also as he does the sick in the hospital and after the washing he will give them three hyperpyra nomismata, that is one nomisma among eight. [62. Allowances for the Orderlies] Their six orderlies will each receive as an allowance two hyperpyra nomismata each, twenty maritime modioi of grain each, sixteen similar measures of wine each, and for their food two maritime modioi of legumes and fifty litrai of cheese. [63. Establishment of a Lepers’ Sanatorium] Though we wished to set apart in a certain place separately some brothers afflicted with leprosy 84 and establish from certain revenues their relief, consolation of every kind, and care to be maintained for them undisturbed, yet the establishment in the city of such a place for their residence and way of life seemed an annoyance to those living in the neighborhood because of the concentration of buildings and it being difficult to approach, on the other hand to establish [a facility] for the special care of these seriously afflicted people selected by us in the same area which we had originally dedicated to that entire group of brothers appeared difficult for such a group. For this reason we have turned our attention to this scheme, namely to build a special house near the other rooms in which the brothers now live being especially near to the old age home of the emperor Lord Romanos 85 [p. 113] for those afflicted brothers selected by us, and then to dedicate and set up a revenue that is going to be spent on their behalf in addition to the other revenues which these our brothers in Christ now have, so that the management of these also can be carried on jointly by the one managing the care and administration of all these afflicted brothers. If then because of this we are thought worthy of special remembrance by this holy and [ 767 ]
TWELFTH CENTURY divine community as having ourselves also expended concern and toil on the resources for their livelihood along with the others who showed care about their prosperity, I am grateful for their gratitude towards me. But if perhaps they wish to be in some way neglectful of their special entreaty on our behalf, then in that case we are confident of not being deprived of the reward for this concern by God the Good Rewarder. [64. Responsibilities of the Stewards] Since the multitude of cares for things both inside and outside the monastery and for matters both spiritual and secular arising from what has been decreed here by us gives rise to the reasonable thought that the superior in daily control of the monastery could not by himself superintend all matters and keep a watch on everything equally, since he could not divide his attention among so many things, we therefore decree that there be several stewards, one of necessity appointed in the controlling monastery dealing carefully with the spheres and concerns that apply to him, another one to be in charge of the other monasteries attached to this monastery and manage things in them, watching all their several stewards with much similar care and earnest zeal and effecting the appropriate improvements in all matters, another one to manage the business of the church of the Eleousa, and another the business of the hospital and the old age home. All of them with the permission and knowledge of the superior should deal with the matters that ought to be dealt with by them. Furthermore I decree that the superior himself in all the most important matters should not do anything without meeting these men, neither appoint agents or suppliers, nor grant leases or immovable property or contracts or other hirings, also in the sanctioning of the most important expenditure and in the case of the other most essential procedures he should carry out whatever seems possible in the presence of these stewards, just as in the appointing of each of these stewards. For in the meeting together and advice of a greater number, the management of these matters will be carried out better. All these stewards will be required necessarily to reside in the controlling monastery, since they should also be monks, and never on any pretext take up residence outside it, unless [p. 115] one of them has to go out to one of the properties outside for some necessary and unavoidable cause. If however the superior from time to time finds any monk among those in the associated monasteries worthy of being appointed to one of these stewardships, and if it is decided that this should be done, this also will be carried out after a joint gathering and decision of the aforementioned monks. However the successive stewards of the monasteries will each live in the monastery of which he is the steward. [65. Inventory of Properties] Since various properties have been assigned to this monastery both by my own majesty and by the lady my dearly beloved wife of blessed memory, those from my majesty are: 86 In the village of Diabenetoi the estate of Anthemiotes and the estate of Kostomyres, the estate Kottabos together with its hostel In the village of Ta Mintou an estate called that of Kiboulios and the other estate called that of [ 768 ]
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